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Search All OPTi 930 Sound System: BIOS Version Drivers

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This worked with 82c930a motherboard chip on laptop (clone type 862,8620) on Win98 as it seems to be a bios version,follow WIN95 installation instructions carefully (in text file) Thks to Lorence Galelli for showing the way on drivers in www.sagernotebooks.com

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Mike Kilburn (DG Member) on 10-May-2000

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

robin graves

22 Aug 2003

Installation:

Stability:

Compatibility:

"I wish people who "change the inf etc.
to get it working" etc. would be a bit more explicit!
1/ The people who report that it will not work in win98 are correct - IFF you follow the instructions!
2/ It took a few attempts to get the file to work, but if you ignore all instructions that are in the readme's and fight win98's " AI " (artificial,
for certain ), you can get

the OPTI 930A to work.
3/ I did it by
A/ copying the unzipped files to a floppy
B/ going into SYSTEM in 98 and removing the SOUND card mess.
C/ ADD NEW HARDWAE, and NOT choosing SOUND etc. (which will NOT work in 98), but choosing the device " OTHER",
and then doing this twice with both the .INF files on the floppy.
D/ At this point Win98 has no idea that there is a sound card at all, so
reboot, and the installed .INFs evoke the floppy DOS setup program which starts up - at this point, choose YES to continue, and go thru the entire DOS setup to include the Autoexec.bat
command lines to "turn on" the card with the correct drivers for the default "SOUND BLASTER PRO" setup.
E/ then the setup program REBOOTS the computer, at which point you again
ADD NEW HARDWARE, and Win98 now finds a SoundBlaster, the game port and other
components. I had to do this process a few times, ( conflict with resources on the video? ), but eventually, even the Windows sound
emulation was set up, and now, all aspects of the card are installed...
Not much was obvious or easy, but repeated attempts eventually succeeded... persist.
robin"

Installed in a NEC Ready 9522 with an embedded OTPI 82C930A sound chip. This driver did not install easy. Without the comment posted by Robin Graves (216.209.114.x) I don't know if I would have been able to get the system working.